Data School FOCUS
Andreas Duenser
Comparison of Adzuna and IVI Job Ads Data
Andreas - Psychology inspired Human-Factors researcher.
Felix Weihs
Development and application of Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer-based sensors
In my postdoctoral fellowship, I am constructing sensors made of proteins that are based on a biophysical phenomenon called Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET). A light-generating luciferase coupled to an energy acceptor such as a fluorescent protein emit light with different wavelength maxima. The available options are endless, but based on certain properties, I am designing and constructing new and superior BRET system which in turn are applied as biosensors in human blood.
Gilbert Permalloo
Investigating the use of portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy for rapid quantification of Phosphorus in wheat straw and grains
My name is Gilbert Permalloo. I am a Research Project Officer and I am presently working on roots architecture and rhizosphere of wheat. My background is mainly sugarcane agronomy and I was doing a little bit of basic programming in Fortran 77 and GWBasic about 30 years ago. Most of my data manipulation and visualisation are done in Excel. I could not write any code in R before I joined Data School and I was spending lots of time working with data in spreadsheets. On the otherhand, I am amazed to witness every day the marvel that R can do with data manipulation and visualisation.
Marina Alexander
Mining the transcriptome for biomarkers of infection
Hi my name is Marina. I work on viruses. Before data school I would typically enter my data into Excel or Prism to make bar graphs with errors bars, then communicate these in publications and powerpoint slides. Using R, I can now reproducibly wrangle data imported from Excel, plot with ggplot2 to make really flexible and informative visualisations of the raw data. This has helped me to understand the sources of variation in my data, apply appropriate statistics and make novel visualisations.
Nathalie Colgrave
Analytics & Decision Sciences Program
My name is Nathalie Colgrave. I work in Finance supporting CSIRO Data61. Data School was my introduction to coding. Prior to Data School, monthly reports were compiled via manipulation in excel through cell referencing as well as usuage of functions such as vlookup.